Been busy busy, but somehow none of it has resulted in new posts! At least all the interesting internet discoveries balance out the large posts last update.
I finally changed the site icons on all my sites from the odd little pixel art face I’ve used for years into a boring picture of myself that I use almost everywhere (minimaJake v1.0.16). Nothing interesting, but shoutout to this little utility that generated all the image sizes & HTML needed.
Originally I planned to learn 1 new topic every day in September, but I quickly ran out of topics! Regardless, I published my very misc notes on “Jekyll Builds, Fruit Tree Growing, F1 Aerodynamics, Book Publishing, and Household Electronics”.
Whilst I knew of Kowloon Walled City, this in-depth short documentary provides great context on how “The Densest City on Earth” occurred, and how it functioned day to day. The channel posts rarely, but every video is excellently produced.
“Floor796” is a one-person masterpiece, creating an extremely detailed isometric animation of a fictional space station. Every room is packed full of details and references, with the sheer density making it easy to spend an hour exploring. Clicking any character explains the reference, ranging from popular films to ancient memes to music to obscure Russian poems!
North Korean hackers are nothing new, but a recent combination of a Chrome & Windows zero-day exploit resulted in full system control just by visiting a website in any Chromium browser (e.g. Chrome, Edge, Opera). Spooky.
Similarly, an impressively bad exploit in the much-hyped “Arc” browser that essentially allowed anyone to remotely run any javascript on any site for any user due to awful security controls is a good reminder of why choosing an exciting new browser is maybe not the best idea!
A useful utility to check how well your adblocker works, if/when uBlock Origin stops working this’ll be useful for assessing potential successors! It currently stores 99%, and only misses the “fake” ads, so essentially 100%.
I’m not at all interested in VR / AR, especially not in the Apple ecosystem, but using it to create the most terrifying horror game possible is an excellent application! Hopefully something similar but far higher quality comes out eventually.
radio.garden is a listing of thousands of radio stations around the world, letting you listen to them in real time. Unfortunately UK users can’t listen to other countries’ radio without a VPN, but it is at least amazing to see how even the tiniest islands often have a radio station or two!
You’ve heard of 4 and maybe even 3 wheeled cars, but what about “N-Wheeled Cars” covering 1-24?
Pi goes on forever, right? What if you mapped each digit to an input on a GameBoy Advance and got Pi to play Pokémon? Well, you’d make essentially zero progress, but it’s oddly enthralling to watch, reminiscent of Twitch Plays Pokémon except without the progress!
“Variable Fonts” lets you play with the characteristics of fonts, with Roboto Flex having a staggering 13 variables to freely change! “XOPQ” and “YOPQ” parameters are the most interesting to me, although the “wave” & “line” fonts are very creative.
The BBC made their sound effect library public (and free for non-commercial use). Most are very niche, searching whatever words come to mind yields very odd results!
Aaaaand a cynical representation of how awful most of the modern web is, with the various cookie notices, notification prompts, adverts, chatbots, newsletter alerts, etc. I don’t think my sites do any of these because I hate them so much!
Oh, I got married 🎉
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